I listed Minority Report as my #1 film of 2002, and ten years later the thing I find most surprising about that fact is how brave I felt and counter-cultural I thought I was being.
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In Part I of our Toronto International Film Festival Wrap for 2010, Cynthia L. Morefield discusses space, grief, transformation, her favorite film of the festival and two films that have stuck in her memory. Today’s …
If anyone out there is writing a history of filmmaking over the last 30 years I sincerely urge you devote a chapter to the influence of music videos on feature films. This influence would be …
Smart, funny, and unexpectedly sweet, Will Gluck’s Easy A is the most pleasant surprise of my film year, a high school comedy with wit rather than snark, charm rather vulgarity, and heart rather than hormones.
Anything You Want is certainly the most aptly titled film at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Its central premise is not exactly a secret, but as one of the more interesting features …
Stephen Frears’s Tamara Drewe is essentially a Restoration sex comedy set in the English countryside. It’s based on a graphic novel by Posy Simmonds but the plot structure and characterization is best described in reference …
Before there was 1More Film Blog, I posted a lot of Toronto International Film Festival coverage at Jeffrey Overstreet’s Looking Closer Journal. I always appreciated Jeff’s willingness to provide space for my reviews, so this …
